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Summit Program

8:00 AM

8:10 AM

Opening Ceremony

Welcome & Introductions

  • ï‚· NABS Organizing Committee Members

  • NABS Supporting Partners Recognition

  • Summit Logistics

  • Summit History

  • NABS Program Committee Partners
    Recognition

  • Summit Overview & Workgroups Process

8:20 AM

Roots of Destruction in the 1800s

  • Natural History Perspective—Wildlife as Commodity, Enemy, Vermin, & Tool of Repression across the Continent

  • Tribal Perspective—Perpetual Devastation of Indigenous Communities Everywhere

  • Ranching Perspective on Grasslands Loss—The Plow-Up and Pave-Over in Canada

8:50 AM

9:00 AM

Bison as National Mammal: Principles of Unity, Resilience & Health

Evolving from the Old West Way of Thinking: Wildlife Recovery Roundtable

  • Landscape-Scale Approach to Wildlife Recovery

  • Tribal Roles in Wildlife Recovery: Crossings & Corridors

  • Rebound from Wildlife Poaching with America’s First National Park Establishment in 1872

  • Cattle & Wildlife Working Wild Challenge

  • Plains Species Assemblages: Prairie Dogs + Black-footed Ferrets + Swift Fox + Burrowing Owls

  • Beneficial Soil Organisms

10:00 AM

10:10 AM

10:30 AM

NOON

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

4:50 PM

5 PM - 7PM

Group Activity: Identifying Common Values 

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Workgroup Set 1

LUNCH BREAK (food trucks Onsite)

 Workgroup Set 2 

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Workgroup Set 3 

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Welcome Reception + Poster Dialogue

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